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  'NASA's historic Dawn mission ends after running out of fuel'

  November 02, 2018 14:53 IST

  Dawn, which studied two of the largest objects in the asteroid belt, missed scheduled communications sessions with NASA's Deep Space Network on October 31 and November 1, NASA said in a statement.  

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  China creates history; successfully carries out vertical landing test of space rocket

  November 01, 2018 19:52 IST

  The Space Intelligence Technology Innovation Centre and a national key laboratory of aerospace intelligent control technology were responsible for the flight test and research.

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  NASA bids goodbye to planet-hunting Kepler space telescope

  October 31, 2018 14:32 IST

  Working in deep space for nine years, Kepler discovered planets from outside the solar system, many of which could be promising places for life.  

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  NASA sets record with 'supersonic' parachute for Mars 2020 mission

  October 30, 2018 18:10 IST

  According to NASA, it was the fastest inflation in history of a parachute this size and created a peak load of almost 70,000 pounds of force.

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  NASA says parker solar probe breaks record for closest approach to Sun

  October 30, 2018 15:36 IST

  Parker Solar Probe is also expected to break the record for fastest spacecraft travelling relative to the Sun.

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  Earth's wild animal population plummeted 60 per cent in 44 years: WWF

  October 30, 2018 9:28 IST

  The WWF's biennial report, which tracks trends in global wildlife abundance, indicates that the global populations of fish, birds, mammals, amphibians and reptiles declined, on average, by 60 per cent between 1970 and 2014.

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  NASA says Hubble space telescope returns to science operations

  October 29, 2018 19:19 IST

  One of Hubble’s gyros failed on October 5, and the spacecraft's operations team activated a backup gyro the next day.

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  China's private satellite-carrying rocket ZQ-1 fails after launch

  October 28, 2018 20:38 IST

  Video posted by a Chinese news site showed Landspace's 19-meter- (62-foot-) tall red-and-white rocket lifting off against clear blue skies.

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  Scaled down test for safe landing of Chandrayaan-2 lander completed: ISRO

  October 26, 2018 21:30 IST

  ISRO intends to launch Chandrayaan-2 sometime in January next year. The Mission will have an orbiter, lander and a rover.

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  Astronomers find signs of double supermassive black holes

  October 26, 2018 15:18 IST

  The fact that the most powerful jets are associated with binary black holes could have important consequences for the formation of stars in galaxies.

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  NASA's Parker Solar Probe records images of Earth

  October 26, 2018 8:35 IST

  The image was captured by the WISPR (Wide-field Imager for Solar Probe) instrument, the only imaging instrument on board the Parker Solar Probe.

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  Manned travel for conducting scientific research in space will take 15-20 years: Russian cosmonaut

  October 26, 2018 6:37 IST

  Lauding Indian and Chinese space programmes for "making great progress", Kornienko urged the need for similar joint efforts by countries like Russia, India and China for the success of space exploration.  

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  ISRO to send human in space by 2022, Chandrayan 2 to be completed in 2019: Sivan

  October 26, 2018 6:32 IST

  Sivan, who is here to attend the convocation ceremony of DDU Gorakhpur University Friday, told reporters, "We have set a deadline of sending human to space by the end of 2021 or beginning of 2022".

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  Russian Soyuz rocket puts satellite into orbit, first since failure

  October 25, 2018 23:06 IST

    The Russian military said a Soyuz-2 booster rocket lifted off from the Plesetsk launch facility in northwestern Russia.

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  Scientists discover mysterious stripes on Saturn's moon Dione

  October 25, 2018 17:21 IST

  The stripes are parallel, appear to overlie other features and are unaffected by topography, suggesting they are among the youngest surfaces on Dione.

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  NASA CubeSat beams back image of Mars

  October 23, 2018 11:59 IST

  The twin, low-cost MarCO CubeSats, which are sharing a ride with InSight Mars lander, were designed to find out if they could survive the journey to deep space.   

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  NASA names new gamma-ray constellations after Godzilla, Hulk

  October 22, 2018 12:09 IST

  Fermi has mapped about 3,000 gamma-ray sources -- 10 times the number known before its launch and comparable to the number of bright stars in the traditional constellations.  

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  Superflares from red dwarfs may affect habitability of planets

  October 22, 2018 9:24 IST

  Young low-mass stars flare much more frequently and more energetically than old stars and middle-age stars like our Sun, the findings of the study published in the Astrophysical Journal showed.  

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  Rare 5 kg Moon rock auctioned for over USD 600k

  October 22, 2018 7:21 IST

  The meteorite is classified as NWA 11789, lunar feldspathic breccia, unofficially known as 'Buagaba' or 'The Moon Puzzle.'  

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  Europe-Japan joint mission set out for Mercury

  October 21, 2018 13:34 IST

  The joint endeavour BepiColombo left Earth on an Ariane rocket that launched out of South America on Friday, the BBC said.  

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  Europe-Japan joint mission set out for Mercury

  October 20, 2018 16:52 IST

  It's the first time the European and Japanese space agencies (Esa and Jaxa) have set out for Mercury. The Americans have already been there.

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  NASA calls for science payloads for delivery to Moon

  October 19, 2018 15:33 IST

  The initial proposal deadline is November 19, 2018, the US space agency said.

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  China prepares to launch 3 artificial moons in space by 2022

  October 19, 2018 12:53 IST

  The artificial or man-made moon is a satellite carrying a huge space mirror, which can reflect the sun light to the Earth.  

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  Meet Hyperion, largest known structure of early universe, million, billion times massive than the Sun

  October 18, 2018 22:01 IST

  Hyperion's unimaginably enormous mass is estimated to be a million billion times that of our own Sun (which is approximately 1,048 Jupiters, or 333,000 Earths).

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  'There is no God': Stephen Hawking's last book gives brief answers to big questions

  October 18, 2018 6:48 IST

  "Brief Answers to the Big Questions" is a selection of the late cosmologist's most profound, accessible, and timely reflections from his personal archive.

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  Four giant planets around young star discovered

  October 16, 2018 18:07 IST

  The star is just two million years old -- a ‘toddler’ in astronomical terms -- and is surrounded by a huge disc of dust and ice.

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  NASA's Chandra Observatory back in action

  October 16, 2018 17:55 IST

  The cause of Chandra’s safe mode on October 10 has now been understood and the operations team has successfully returned the spacecraft to its normal pointing mode.

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  Arctic sea ice changing more slowly: NASA

  October 15, 2018 20:14 IST

  With so little thick, old ice left, the rate of decrease in ice thickness has slowed, the US space agency said in a statement.